“Daddy, can I learn to play the violin?” young Sarah asks her father. She is always asking for things and her father is not very happy. “You cost(花费)me a lot of money, Sarah.” he says, “________ you wanted to lean horse riding, then dancing, then swimming. Now it’s the violin.”
“I’ll try very hard Daddy.” says Sarah. “I’ll play every day.”
“All right,” her father says. “I’ll pay for you to have lessons for six ________. At the end of the lessons you ________ play something for me. If you play badly, I will stop the lessons. If you play well, you can have ________ lessons.”
“OK, Daddy,” says Sarah.
He soon finds a good violin teacher and Sarah begins her lessons. Six weeks passes quickly. It is time for Sarah to play for her father. She begins to play. She plays very ________ . Her father has one of his friends with him, and the friend puts his hands on his ________ . When Sarah finishes, her father says, “Well done, Sarah, You can have more lessons.”
Sarah runs out of the room ________ , her father’s friend, taking his hands off his ears, turns to him. “The lessons cost you a lot of money, ________ she still plays very badly.” he says. “Well, you’re ________. She does play badly,” her father says, “But since(自从)she started learning the violin, I can ________ five apartment(套房)in this building at very good prices. In another six weeks, I’ll have the whole building!”
1. A.First | B.Second | C.Next | D.Then |
2. A.days | B.weeks | C.months | D.years |
3. 4. A.more | B.violin | C.piano | D.six |
5. A.badly | B.well | C.happily | D.bad |
6. A.ears | B.eyes | C.mouth | D.head |
7. A.really | B.healthily | C.happily | D.difficultly |
8. 9. A.busy | B.wrong | C.great | D.right |
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